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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cheek \Cheek\ (ch[=e]k), verb (used with an object) To be impudent or saucy to. [Slang.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cheek \Cheek\ (ch[=e]k), noun [OE. cheke, cheoke, AS. ce['a]ce, ce['o]ce; cf. Goth. kukjan to kiss, D. kaak cheek; perh. akin to E. chew, jaw.]
1. The side of the face below the eye.
2. The cheek bone. [Obs.] --Caucer.
3. pl. (Mech.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.
4. pl. The branches of a bridle bit. --Knight.
5. (Founding) A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask.
6. Cool confidence; assurance; impudence. [Slang]
{Cheek of beef}. See Illust. of {Beef}.
{Cheek bone} (Anat.) the bone of the side of the face; esp., the malar bone.
{Cheek by jowl}, side by side; very intimate.
{Cheek pouch} (Zo["o]l.), a sacklike dilation of the cheeks of certain monkeys and rodents, used for holding food.
{Cheeks of a block}, the two sides of the shell of a tackle block.
{Cheeks of a mast}, the projection on each side of a mast, upon which the trestletrees rest.
{Cheek tooth} (Anat.), a hinder or molar tooth.
{Butment cheek}. See under {Butment}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cheek
noun
1: either side of the face below the eyes
2: an impudent statement [syn: {impudence}, {impertinence}]
3: either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump [syn: {buttock}]
4: impudent aggressiveness; "I couldn't believe her boldness"; "he had the effrontery to question my honesty" [syn: {boldness}, {nerve}, {brass}, {face}]
verb: speak impudently to
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "cheek": arse, ass, backside, bank, beam, behind, border, bottom, brashness, brass, brazen boldness, breech, broadside, bum, butt, can, cheeks, chop, chutzpah, coast, confidence, crust, derriere, duff, face, fanny, flank, gall, hand, handedness, haunch, heroics, hip, hubris, improvidence, imprudence, impudence, indiscretion, injudiciousness, insolence, jowl, keister, laterality, many-sidedness, multilaterality, nerve, overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweeningness, planking, prat, presumption, profile, quarter, rashness, rusty-dusty, shore, side, siding, stern, tail, temerariousness, temerity, temple, tuchis, tush, tushy, unchariness, unilaterality, unwariness
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Cheek Smiting on the cheek was accounted a grievous injury and insult (Job 16:10; Lam. 3:30; Micah 5:1). The admonition (Luke 6:29), "Unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other," means simply, "Resist not evil" (Matt. 5:39; 1 Pet. 2:19-23). Ps. 3:7 = that God had deprived his enemies of the power of doing him injury.
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